Gregory S Kavka
Biographic Data
| ID | 958294 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gregory S Kavka |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gregory S |
| FAMILY NAME | Kavka |
| SIGNATURE | KAVKA G S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Hobbesian Moral and Political Theory
The Public Goods Rationale for Government and the Circularity Problem
It has been suggested that the production of public goods through a government involves a circularity problem. Since government itself is a public good, how can we use government to produce other public goods? Several solutions to this supposed circularity are offered. Government is a unique kind of public good with some potentially self-generating and self-supporting features. The public goods theory of government remains intact, and this enterp…
Why Even Morally Perfect People Would Need Government
Why do we need government? A common view is that government is necessary to constrain people's conduct toward one another, because people are not sufficiently virtuous to exercise the requisite degree of control on their own. This view was expressed perspicuously, and artfully, by liberal thinker James Madison, in The Federalist , number 51, where he wrote: “If men were angels, no government would be necessary.” Madison's idea is shared by writer…
Justice Between Age Groups and Generations. Peter Laslett , James S. Fishkin
Rationality Triumphant
Among major contractarian theorists, David Gauthier has the most ambitious philosophical aims. John Rawls has recently made clear that his theory of justice is not intended to provide a timeless and culturally invariant account of justice derived from the theory of rational choice. Yet Gauthier, in his rightly acclaimed and widely influential writings, attempts to provide just such an account of morality and distributive justice. With this new pu…
Moral Paradoxes of Nuclear Deterrence
Preface Introduction Part I. Moral Paradoxes of Nuclear Deterrence: 1. Some paradoxes of deterrence 2. A paradox of deterrence revisited 3. Deterrence, utility and rational choice 4. Nuclear deterrence: some moral perplexities 5. Dilemmas of nuclear protest Part II. Alternative to Nuclear Deterrence: 6. Unilateral nuclear disarmament 7. World government 8. Strategic defense 9. Nuclear coercion 10. Mutual nuclear disarmament Notes Index
Moral Paradoxes of Nuclear Deterrence
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Moral Paradoxes of Nuclear Deterrence. By G. S. Kavka. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. xii + 243. Price £25 hbk, £8.95 pbk.) Leslie Stevenson Leslie Stevenson University of St. Andrews Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 39, Issue 155, April 1989, Pages 250–251, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219647 Published: 01 April 1989
Moral Paradoxes of Nuclear Deterrence
Some Neglected Liberal Aspects of Hobbes's Philosophy
The Politics of Procrustus
The toxin puzzle
The toxin puzzle Get access Gregory S. Kavka Gregory S. Kavka University of CaliforniaIrvine, California 92717, U.S.A. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Analysis, Volume 43, Issue 1, January 1983, Pages 33–36, https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/43.1.33 Published: 01 January 1983
Two Solutions to the Paradox of Revolution
Moral Scepticism and Moral Knowledge
Some Paradoxes of Deterrence
Eschatological Falsification
In a well-known article, 1 John Hick argues that the proposition ‘God (as conceived by Christians) exists' is, in principle, verifiable but is not falsifiable. Essentially, his argument is that while no experience in this life could conclusively disprove the existence of the Christian God, certain experiences one might have in the after-life would conclusively verify the existence of the Christian God. In particular, he argues that post mortem ex…
Extensional equivalence and utilitarian generalization
Extensional equivalence and utilitarian generalization
Wittgensteinian Political Theory
Extensional equivalence and utilitarian generalization
Wittgensteinian Political Theory
Extensional equivalence and utilitarian generalization
Eschatological Falsification
In a well-known article, 1 John Hick argues that the proposition ‘God (as conceived by Christians) exists' is, in principle, verifiable but is not falsifiable. Essentially, his argument is that while no experience in this life could conclusively disprove the existence of the Christian God, certain experiences one might have in the after-life would conclusively verify the existence of the Christian God. In particular, he argues that post mortem ex…
Some Paradoxes of Deterrence
Moral Scepticism and Moral Knowledge
Two Solutions to the Paradox of Revolution
The toxin puzzle
The toxin puzzle Get access Gregory S. Kavka Gregory S. Kavka University of CaliforniaIrvine, California 92717, U.S.A. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Analysis, Volume 43, Issue 1, January 1983, Pages 33–36, https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/43.1.33 Published: 01 January 1983
The Politics of Procrustus
Some Neglected Liberal Aspects of Hobbes's Philosophy
Moral Paradoxes of Nuclear Deterrence
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Moral Paradoxes of Nuclear Deterrence. By G. S. Kavka. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. xii + 243. Price £25 hbk, £8.95 pbk.) Leslie Stevenson Leslie Stevenson University of St. Andrews Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 39, Issue 155, April 1989, Pages 250–251, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219647 Published: 01 April 1989
Moral Paradoxes of Nuclear Deterrence
Moral Paradoxes of Nuclear Deterrence
Preface Introduction Part I. Moral Paradoxes of Nuclear Deterrence: 1. Some paradoxes of deterrence 2. A paradox of deterrence revisited 3. Deterrence, utility and rational choice 4. Nuclear deterrence: some moral perplexities 5. Dilemmas of nuclear protest Part II. Alternative to Nuclear Deterrence: 6. Unilateral nuclear disarmament 7. World government 8. Strategic defense 9. Nuclear coercion 10. Mutual nuclear disarmament Notes Index
Justice Between Age Groups and Generations. Peter Laslett , James S. Fishkin
Rationality Triumphant
Among major contractarian theorists, David Gauthier has the most ambitious philosophical aims. John Rawls has recently made clear that his theory of justice is not intended to provide a timeless and culturally invariant account of justice derived from the theory of rational choice. Yet Gauthier, in his rightly acclaimed and widely influential writings, attempts to provide just such an account of morality and distributive justice. With this new pu…
Why Even Morally Perfect People Would Need Government
Why do we need government? A common view is that government is necessary to constrain people's conduct toward one another, because people are not sufficiently virtuous to exercise the requisite degree of control on their own. This view was expressed perspicuously, and artfully, by liberal thinker James Madison, in The Federalist , number 51, where he wrote: “If men were angels, no government would be necessary.” Madison's idea is shared by writer…
The Public Goods Rationale for Government and the Circularity Problem
It has been suggested that the production of public goods through a government involves a circularity problem. Since government itself is a public good, how can we use government to produce other public goods? Several solutions to this supposed circularity are offered. Government is a unique kind of public good with some potentially self-generating and self-supporting features. The public goods theory of government remains intact, and this enterp…
Hobbesian Moral and Political Theory
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